# The GOOD Party says the temporary fuel relief measures announced by minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana come too late to provide lasting relief to South Africans. In the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, the minister announced that the fuel levy will be reduced by three-rand per litre for diesel and one-rand-50-cents per litre for petrol […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in Tshwane is calling for urgent security measures to be implemented at the Wonderboom Airport, following the lapse of security contracts last month. The airport supports more than two-thousand-500 people, accommodates dozens of aviation businesses and facilitates thousands of aircraft movements each year. FF Plus’s Willie Spies says that, at present, […]
# The City of Cape Town says more than eleven-thousand young people between the ages of 14 and 35 received skills development training during the last financial year. The participants were recruited from across the metro through schools, local sub-councils, and youth organisations. Mayoral committee member for Community Services and Health, Francine Higham, says the […]
# The People’s Cost of Care Report, published by author and activist Candice Leigh King, has found that 16-thousand-210 of the 17-thousand-265 respondents oppose the City of Cape Town’s proposed N2 wall project. The controversial 114-million-rand project includes a three-metre barrier and a range of safety interventions along a nine-kilometre stretch of the highway between […]
# Twenty-three-year-old University of the Western Cape student Jeanet Mokoena has given a leukaemia patient in the United States a fighting chance at life. The Linguistics Honours student donated her stem cells through the DKMS, an international organisation dedicated to fighting blood cancer and other blood disorders, by helping patients find matching stem cell donors. Mokoena […]
# SECTION27 has issued a sharp criticism of the latest Adjustment Budget, saying it offers little in the way of meaningful change for the users of the public healthcare and education systems. It notes the reprioritisation of 38.1-billion-rand through the Targeted and Responsible Savings Programme. In basic education, the adjustment proposes a net cut of 309-million-rand […]
# The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has proposed the establishment of a driving school technical committee alongside a proposed Gauteng Driving School Council. This is to address operational challenges, improve industry compliance, and enhance access to driving licence testing services. There are more than 454 driving schools across the province. Gauteng Roads and […]
# Union federation SAFTU has rejected the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, accusing the National Treasury of imposing devastating neoliberalism and austerity measures on a struggling population. The government announced a downward revision of its economic growth forecast for this year to 1.2-percent from 1.6-percent projected in the February budget. Growth is expected to reach two-percent […]
# ActionSA in Tshwane has criticised EFF mayoral committee member for Health, Tshegofatso Mashabela, over her response to the ongoing water contamination crisis in Bronkhorstspruit. This follows the outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses that affected 408 people between October 7 and 18, with most of the patients younger than four years old. ActionSA’s Henriette Frohlich says that […]
